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WordPress is a Blog Publishing System written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is the official successor of ''b2\cafelog'', developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name ''WordPress'' was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg . The latest release of WordPress is version 2.2.3, released on . FEATURES
HISTORY ''b2\cafelog'', more commonly known as simply ''b2'' or ''cafelog'' was the precursor to WordPress. b2\cafelog was estimated to have been employed on approximately 2000 blogs as of May 2003. It was also written in PHP for use with MySQL by Michel Valdrighi, who is now a contributing developer to WordPress. Though WordPress is the official successor, another project, B2evolution , is also in active development. WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a Fork of b2.1 In 2004 the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package was changed by Six Apart , and many of its users migrated to WordPress - causing a marked, and continuing, growth in WordPress's popularity.http://www.google.com/trends?q=wordpress%2C+blogger%2C+moveable+type%2C+typepad RELEASES WordPress releases are named after well known Jazz musicians. WordPress 1.0 was codenamed ''Mingus'' (after Charles Mingus ). WordPress 1.5 was released mid-February 2005 and codenamed ''Strayhorn'' after . WordPress 2.0 was released in December 2005 and codenamed ''Duke'' after jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington . This version added rich editing, better administration tools, image uploading, faster posting, an improved import system, and completely overhauled the back end. WordPress 2.0 also offered various improvements to plugin developers.http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wp2/ On 22 January 2007 , another major upgrade, WordPress 2.1, codenamed ''Ella'' after jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald , was released. In addition to correcting security issues, version 2.1 featured a redesigned interface and enhanced editing tools (including integrated spell check and auto save), improved content management options, and a variety of code and database optimizations. WordPress 2.2, codenamed ''Getz'' after system for categories, as well as Tags , but a proposed revision led to the feature being held back from release.http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2007-April/012090.html VULNERABILITIES In January 2007, many high profile Search Engine Optimization (SEO) blogs, as well as many low-profile commercial blogs featuring Adsense were targeted and attacked with a WordPress exploit.http://www.threadwatch.org/node/11333 A separate vulnerability on one of the project site's Web Server s allowed an attacker to introduce exploitable code in the form of a Back Door to some downloads of WordPress 2.1.1. The 2.1.2 release addressed this issue; an advisory released at the time advised all users to upgrade immediately.2 In May 2007, a study revealed that 98% of WordPress blogs being run are exploitable.http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/24/167223 In a June 2007 interview, Stefen Esser, the founder of the PHP Security Response Team, spoke critically of WordPress's security track record, citing problems with the application's architecture that make it unnecessarily difficult to write code that is secure against SQL injection vulnerabilities, as well as other problems.http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/interview-280607/ WORDPRESS MU WordPress supports one weblog per installation, though multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables. WordPress MU is a fork of WordPress created to allow simultaneous blogs to exist within one installation. Wordpress MU makes it possible for any one with a website to host their own blogging community, control and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. Notable communities that use MU are WordPress.com and Harvard University .http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/home/ DEVELOPERS WordPress development is led by Ryan Boren and Matt Mullenweg. Mullenweg and Mike Little were co-founders of the project. The contributing developers include:
Though developed much by the community surrounding it, WordPress is closely associated with Automattic , where some of WordPress's main contributing developers are employees.http://automattic.com/about/ WordPress is also in part developed by its community, among which are the WP testers, a group of people that volunteer time and effort to testing each release. They have early access to Nightly Builds , Beta versions and Release Candidates. Upgrading to these versions, they can find and report errors to a special Mailing List , or the project's Trac tool. SPONSORED THEMES SEE ALSO REFERENCES FURTHER READING EXTERNAL LINKS
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